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Old 04-13-2007, 06:56 PM
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Default Re: \"Before the Movie\"

The Fischer-Spassky world championship match in 1972 made chess huge in the USA. On a smaller scale, the Short-Kasparov PCA championship did the same for British chess in the early 90s. Both matches were heavily covered on TV.
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